grutch

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/ɡɹʌt͡ʃ/

verb

To murmur, complain.

OriginMiddle English grucchen ← Old French grouchier →
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Meanings

verbgrutch (third-person singular simple present grutches, present participle grutching, simple past and past participle grutched)

present singular third person grutches · participle present grutching · participle past grutched · past grutched · alternative gruch

  1. intransitiveTo murmur, complain.

    "But I am a man who may grutch and grumble, but when I have set my face to do a thing I will not turn my back upon it until it be done."

    1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
  2. obsoleteTo grudge.

    But that their natures bad appeard in both: For both did at their second Sister grutch

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
noungrutch (plural grutches)

plural grutches · alternative gruch

  1. A complaint.

    In it he melted lead for bullets, To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets; To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter t' any such.

    1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1

Origin

  1. Middle Englishgrucche
  2. Old Frenchgrouchier“to grumble”
  3. Middle Englishgrucchen
  4. Englishgrutch

The verb is from Middle English grucchen (attested since c. 1200), from Old French grouchier (“to grumble”), of unknown origin, perhaps from Germanic, and likely of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Frankish *grōtijan (“to accuse, yell at, make cry, scold”). The noun is from Middle English grucche, from the verb; it is attested since about 1400. See also grudge, grouch, grouse.

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Translations

Russian оби́да
  • оби́да (obída)complaint

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with grutch

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Chicago

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